Quotes About Self-acceptance

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

Life is about drawing and redrawing who we are and how we behave without shame or judgment.

The truth is that no one can keep you captive. No one can keep you unhappy. No one can keep you abused. Our lives rise to the level we accept.

Wish I knew. Meeting you taught me to forgive myself. I don't need to hate. Not anymore.

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment!

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

You really can't go through life wanting to be liked. It's the hardest lesson to learn. Once you say, "Fuck it, I don't care," once you've got that attitude, then it's easy to relax, to talk, laugh, cry, whatever.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entflien. Leg dich in deine Hände.

Denn du bist du Und kannst dir selber nicht entfliehn. Leg dich in deine Hände.

Yet such authenticity was part of [Sonia Sotomayor's] attraction. And she acknowledged what few other prominent figures revealed: she sometimes felt awkward and out of place. In her speeches, she talked about fighting the fear of missteps and failure. 'Like yourself. Like who you are,' she advised young people trying to make their way in the world.

I don't believe in dieting.

I was just thinking that I started off OK," Jo said. "There wasn't anything different or wrong with me when I was born. I wasn't inherently bad or freakish.

But this is my old game, isn't it? Comparing, judging, evaluating, liking and disliking, approving and disapproving. There are, I sense, inseparable strengths and weaknesses in whatever way you go, and the point ultimately is just to go.

After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

For years I said Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over .

For years I have been saying Let me in, Love me, Approve me, Define me, Regulate me, Validate me, Support me. Now I say Move over.